IAAF World Challenge marks two months to go to Moscow 2013

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With two months to go until the IAAF World Championships, Moscow, Russia (10 to 18 August), an IAAF Hammer Throw Challenge competition yesterday (10) in Moscow’s Luzhniki sports complex marked the latest steps on the road to the world’s largest single sports event of 2013.

The women’s competition which was won by Poland’s 2009 World champion and former World record holder Anita Wlodarczyk was graced by many of the likely finalists of this summer’s IAAF World Championships.

This fixture of the IAAF Hammer Throw Challenge forms part of the IAAF World Challenge meeting that takes place today in the main Luzhniki stadium and is an important test event for the competition systems of the IAAF World Championships.

The venue which hosted the 1980 Olympic Games now boasts a blue track with the same kind of Mondo surface that was used at the London 2012 Olympics. Both the track and a natural infield grass have been put in place especially for the IAAF World Championships.